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boner 2.0 · 07-15-2005, 12:52 PM

50 AOL is 20 years old?

brizzad · 07-15-2005, 12:56 PM

i think a lot of you are confusing the WWW with the net

Shooting_Manic · 07-15-2005, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Furious_Female

AOL went unlimited in 1996... I still remember the dial up busy signal madness like it was yesterday. 9 years, wow.

Yep, it was 96.

Shooting_Manic · 07-15-2005, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Yngwie

wether it's 20 years old or 100 years old AOL still sucks and always will.

They do suck, but what the did do was make the internet user-friendly to the masses. They got the internet into every home in America which without them, we might all have different careers now.

davidd · 07-15-2005, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by GatorB

I get this AOL disk in the mail stating that it's AOL's 20th anniversary. WTF?

Yup, I still have (somewhere) the disks they used to mail for the Commodore 128... It used a fucked up windowing system which I forget the name of...

Compuserve was cirqua 1979, I got my first account in like 83 or 84, around the time of War Games.

20 years old, they are.

pornguy · 07-15-2005, 01:29 PM

AOL bought Compuserve, and that makes them 20 years old.

a1ka1ine · 07-15-2005, 01:33 PM

aol have been going for 20 years - i heard that in the news one of their first dialup customers finally got connected last week!

johnuglo · 07-15-2005, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by chadglni

A little before that. AOL went to unlimited access before then for sure.

actually concentric was the first unlimited national dialup 96 i believe

Meta Ridley · 07-15-2005, 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by 4Pics

Aol owns compuserve, so it could be because of that

Good point

Ron Bennett · 07-15-2005, 03:07 PM

CompuServe has nothing to do with the age of AOL ... CompuServe was acquired in the mid/late 90s and had already become a "has been" by then.

20 years / 1985 is absolutely correct ... AOL was first branded as Q-Link, as others have already pointed out ... they then rebranded to America Online (AOL) a few years later...

Members who joined in the first few years (talking late 80s) were given discounts indefinitely when they re-branded to AOL.

Guess I'm showing my age (I'm 33) ... Q-Link / AOL's allure years ago wasn't the internet (they didn't even offer it until later), but rather that they had lots of chatrooms where people could socialize / adult oriented chatrooms; on-line hookups.

Ron

slapass · 07-15-2005, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by GweedZilla

Actually going back that far it could even have been more standard for 300 baud. I remember bein on Delphi at 300 baud... oof.

Brutal!

I remember when we hit 8300 and you could really surf for porn. Before that it was more surfing for well not really surfing....

VirtuMike · 07-15-2005, 06:28 PM

FIDONet 4 LIFE!

boner 2.0 · 07-15-2005, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by VirtuMike

FIDONet 4 LIFE!

I miss BBSes

Pianoman · 07-15-2005, 07:48 PM

i remember downloading an AOL update on a 1200 baud. Took about 6 hours. LOL.

those were the days..........

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Ron Bennett Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 1,653	CompuServe has nothing to do with the age of AOL ... CompuServe was acquired in the mid/late 90s and had already become a "has been" by then. 20 years / 1985 is absolutely correct ... AOL was first branded as Q-Link, as others have already pointed out ... they then rebranded to America Online (AOL) a few years later... Members who joined in the first few years (talking late 80s) were given discounts indefinitely when they re-branded to AOL. Guess I'm showing my age (I'm 33) ... Q-Link / AOL's allure years ago wasn't the internet (they didn't even offer it until later), but rather that they had lots of chatrooms where people could socialize / adult oriented chatrooms; on-line hookups. Ron __________________ Domagon - Website Management and Domain Name Sales

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